What's your craziest family story?

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Here’s one from me… a section of a much-longer saga…

Father in law gets Parkinsons. Mother in law leaves him (after 58 years) and files a restraining order. Father in law files a reciprocal order. Mother in law then comes back to their house, VIOLATING the restraining order… brother in law sees it, calls the police…

…and they arrest her. :bigyikes:

(to be fair, my BIL, an attorney, didn’t realize when he called that they’d have to arrest her… he felt very bad about that)

Any you’d like to share? I’d kinda like to feel that I’m not living in Loonyville alone.
 
I have a relative who figured out that one of her sons had put his brand-new hatchet into his knee because she noticed his younger brother (who had been out with him at the time of the accident) was waiting on him hand-and-foot and she smelled a rat.

I know someone else who successfully got a chance to take a college final he had missed because he had proof he’d been sitting in jail at the time of the originally-scheduled exam.

I know someone whose college-aged son, the driver, and a friend of his got into an accident that badly injured the friend. The friend was from another state, and so was discharged from the hospital into the care of the parents of the driver. As the insurance companies figured it out, their guest was technically suing them for damages while they were taking care of him.

I can’t top the story of someone taking out a restraining order, then visiting the person she’d gotten the order against and refusing to leave, even though he had a counter-restraining order against her, and finally having an attorney in the family call the police under the mistaken impression that restraining orders by people with Parkinson’s aren’t enforceable. That’s a new one on me. The only thing that could top that is if the attorney was her son, not her son-in-law, and the parents with orders against each other had paid to send him to law school.
 
My Uncle lived in a New Jersey home near the ocean… One day the family (about 6 of us) went to spend a day on the beach… This part of the Atlantic is known for it’s rough surf and undertow. Well, Uncle went in for a swim, got caught in some undertow and before coming up to the surface, lost his swim trunks… **** Hours went by and we started to wonder why Uncle was still swimming in the ocean ?? ****] Finally his wife went out to see why he was spending so much time in the ocean… He told her and asked that she return to the house to get his other pair of trunks… A 15 min walk, so Uncle spend another 1/2 in cold ocean water while wife went to retrieve his other pair of trunks.
 
oldrover said:
Here’s one from me… a section of a much-longer saga…

Father in law gets Parkinsons. Mother in law leaves him (after 58 years) and files a restraining order. Father in law files a reciprocal order. Mother in law then comes back to their house, VIOLATING the restraining order… brother in law sees it, calls the police…

…and they arrest her. :bigyikes:

(to be fair, my BIL, an attorney, didn’t realize when he called that they’d have to arrest her… he felt very bad about that)

Any you’d like to share? I’d kinda like to feel that I’m not living in Loonyville alone.
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My uncle is a cop who once arrested a woman who violated concurrent restraining orders between a man with Parkinson’s and a his wife whose son called the police on.
 
EasterJoy said:
I can’t top the story of someone taking out a restraining order, then visiting the person she’d gotten the order against and refusing to leave, even though he had a counter-restraining order against her, and finally having an attorney in the family call the police under the mistaken impression that restraining orders by people with Parkinson’s aren’t enforceable. That’s a new one on me. The only thing that could top that is if the attorney was her son, not her son-in-law, and the parents with orders against each other had paid to send him to law school.
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He is, and they did. LOL
 
These are all from my husband’s family, because my family is way too boring for any of this stuff:

My husband’s great uncle (now deceased) used to keep one of those hand bells for his wife to tell her when he wanted to eat and when he was “in the mood.” This same uncle also successfully faked deafness to a police officer to get out of a speeding ticket.

Still my husband’s family, but another branch: The cousins who got their grandmother to grow marijuana by convincing her it was another plant, when her son (and their father) was the town’s chief of police.

Oh, and another great uncle who had a second family and was in the mafia. :eek:
 
Yeah I was going to post but after reading that… I think I’ll just back away slowly. :bigyikes:
 
oldrover said:
He is, and they did. LOL
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This is where the cliche “you couldn’t make this stuff up” comes from! 😃

You gotta laugh, because, well, you gotta laugh. I hope this doesn’t cost the family a big pot of money and trouble to clear up.
 
A lot of us could find relatives who weren’t law-abiding during Prohibition, I think, and it wasn’t unknown for police of the time to look the other way sometimes. Wow, though, this one goes over and above!
 
My great (or great-great) grandfather shot my great (great-great?) grandmothers legs off.
 
I must have a boring family because nothing like these stories happened during my lifetime.

There was one time when my mother’s aunts and uncles were all having a party, it got late, they’d all been drinking, which led to political arguments, which prompted someone to call the White House to complain to the President. I’m not sure which President it was–Nixon, Johnson, Truman…I’ll have to ask my mom. It may have been Nixon.

They didn’t get to talk to the President so they left a message. Some time later, he actually called back. :eek: 😃
 
Wow, great stories!!!

My 80 something grandfather had never been on a plane. He took one to Nova Scotia, where
he was born. On the way there, he felt he needed some air. Since the airline windows did not
open he decided to try to open the door.

The flight attendant him caught him just in time before opening the door. That probably would have crashed the plane.

Same grandfather up in his 80’s decided to paint his porch. He started painting on the wrong end on the steps and painted himself into a corner. In order to escape he jumped over the rail of the porch. He broke his hip and landed a while in the hospital.

When I was in college I accidently took home another student’s textbook without knowing him. Somehow he got from someone my address. He and a friend showed up dressed like pimps demanding the textbook. I was scared half to death of these two strangers and quickly handed the book to him.

When my sister was in college a sheriff came to our door demanding my sister. I was frightened because neither of us had ever been in trouble. He was demanding an overdue library book, or fines or she could go to court. Luckily she found the book. I was very scared.

Once when my sister was in college some Boston Police came to the door looking for her. They said a brown Chevette fitting the description and license plate of her car was seen in the worst part of Boston involved in a hit and run. We lived in the suburbs and never had reason to go into that part of Boston. She said no it was not her. Suddenly, they tried to implicate me and my car, an ancient green Dodge. I too, never drove in Boston. Also, it seemed rather random to include my car which looked nothing like hers.

Finally we sent them next door to talk to our neighbors. A retired priest lived next door. He
vouched for us. We had always been well behaved ladies who helped out a lot at church.
That incident frightened me a lot. They had the wrong license plate all along.
 
I only wish I could share my stories… They would definately be the strangest on this thread.

Perhaps springer or Maury would pay for them. Wait, one of them involves a family member on Maury…
 
Will_B said:
My Uncle lived in a New Jersey home near the ocean… One day the family (about 6 of us) went to spend a day on the beach… This part of the Atlantic is known for it’s rough surf and undertow. Well, Uncle went in for a swim, got caught in some undertow and before coming up to the surface, lost his swim trunks… **** Hours went by and we started to wonder why Uncle was still swimming in the ocean ?? ****] Finally his wife went out to see why he was spending so much time in the ocean… He told her and asked that she return to the house to get his other pair of trunks… A 15 min walk, so Uncle spend another 1/2 in cold ocean water while wife went to retrieve his other pair of trunks.

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During grandma’s childhood, there was a tradition or custom by the Cheo (nickname for those named José) Brothers that during lent they visited by foot people’s home along with other followers to pray. One day (or evening?) the Cheo Brothers and followers (grandma included ) entered this home where there was a lot of fighting between the spouses and between the siblings. The Cheo Brothers felt that the family was in need of praying the rosary. So they all began to pray the rosary (and the followers too but outside because they couldn’t fit in). Suddenly, this unknown boy comes inside and starts playing with a top spinning on the floor, and the leader found it strange and disturbing and that something was off. So, he took his big waist rosary off and hit the boy with it and it transformed into a black dog and went running whining all the way down the path until it was out of sight. Grandma had goosebumps.
 
That is tough because my family IS crazy. But I would say the story about my Grandma shooting her first husband. Without going into all the details… she shot her first husband 😛
 
My MIL insisted on a family portrait (which was to be taken on our wedding day) without me in it because she didn’t want to have to airbrush me out if my husband (and I) got divorced.
 
During an inlaw family battle with 5 kids on the side of the father and 3 on the side of the mother, the mother in law sent a photo album to one of her granddaughters … family photos… with all the inlaws on the fathers side literally cut out with scissors.
 
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